James Roughton is an experienced safety professional with in-depth knowledge of the use of social media to help improve productivity. He is an accomplished speaker, author, and writer, and he develops and manages his own websites that provide a resource network for small businesses at http://safetycultureacademy.com/.
Three of his most notable books include Safety Culture: An Innovative, Leadership Approach, Developing an Effective Safety Culture: A Leadership Approach, and Job Hazard Analysis: A Guide for Voluntary Compliance and Beyond. He is an active board member and web master for the Georgia Conference—www.georgiaconference.org.
He was a President of the Georgia ASSE; Chair of Gwinnett Safety Professionals, and adjunct Professor of Safety Technology at Lanier Tech, Georgia Tech, and currently adjunct Professor at Columbia Southern University. He has received awards for his efforts and was named the Georgia Chapter ASSE Safety Professional of the Year 1998-1999. He also won the Project Safe Georgia award, 2008, and received the Georgia Safety, Health, and Environmental Conference's Earl Everett distinguished Service award, 2014.
Tracy Charles Smith is currently working as a project manager for Phase2, based out of Alexandria, Virginia. Tracy has experience in programming, database design, and project management. He has been developing web applications since 1999 and has used various languages and technologies including ColdFusion and PHP. Before becoming a project manager, Tracy was a senior developer working on large website implementations using Drupal as a platform.
In addition to reviewing Learning Drupal 8, Tracy authored Drupal Intranets with Open Atrium in 2011 and has reviewed several other books, including ColdFusion 9 Developer Tutorial. Tracy's entrepreneurial spirit has been a key component to Tracy's success in interacting with clients and team members on business and user-experience related technology solutions. In fact, he used that passion to start his own technology consulting firm called Alpha Geek Tech, LLC. He also served as a technology director for Quiddities Dev, Inc, in Santa Cruz, CA, before moving to the DC area to join Phase2. He earned a BS degree in computer information systems and business administration from Wingate University.
Michelle Williamson got her start in Drupal with version 5 and was immediately hooked by the learning curve and community. She currently works at Mediacurrent, a leading distributed Drupal agency, as Accessibility Lead. She spends her days building Drupal sites and making them more usable and friendly to people with disabilities. She is especially excited about the release of Drupal 8 and the various accessibility enhancements that come with it.
When not in front of a computer, Michelle is usually taking her puppies on hikes, cooking nutritious food, or has her nose in a Kindle.